Her readings of such seldom-heard jewels as "His Eyes, Her Eyes," "In Another World" and the metrically intricate "I Was Born in Love with You" make the album a worthy addition to the short list of first-class American stylists including Sarah Vaughan and Jack Jones , who have collaborated with Mr. Legrand through the years.

As for the metrical arrangement (which is "arbitrarily produced by the imagination"), it seeks as rhythmical sound to prolong "the duration of the effect" of impressions received both from within and without as they modify each other as a way of also prolonging "a consciousness of the cause," sensation as impressions becoming, both as metaphors and linguistic sounds metrically arranged, their conversion into thought as the poet's consciousness of them.

It is all immediated by Edgar's fiction for his blind father, "Hark, do you hear the sea"? — a solicitation that falters metrically when Gloucester completes the line "No, truly" (4.6.4), a foot short and in a weak rhyme with sea.

A primer of this recreation, playing on poetic infrastructure, is Southey's jeu d'esprit, "The Cataract of Lodore," a poem shaped, phonically and metrically, into a cascade of sounds that not only coincide with lexical sense but drive it as a primary expressive force:

For example, the computer screen before me is near as it is that towards which I am concernfully directed, while the desk upon which the screen sits is far despite being metrically closer as it recedes into the background of concernful engagements.